The Seburi Story
1985 · 125 MIN · IMDB 6.3 · 33 VOTES · DIR. Sadao Nakajima
Overview
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Dialogue Timeline — 618 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:05 TOEI Company LTD.
00:02:46 So-so.
00:07:13 You're a good craftsman.
00:16:03 The man is playing Prince Susano, right?
00:20:24 He clung to my waist in day light three days ago.
00:26:14 Shame on you.
00:36:44 to gather wisteria vines.
00:38:54 I see. You're vagabonds.
00:42:17 And want to do everything in their own way.
00:45:23 Damn. Stop!
00:53:26 Watch.
00:59:56 Give me some miso.
01:04:03 Message from the Sanuki boss.
01:09:39 Our romance began at a cafe.
01:12:09 Is it really Ok?
01:17:31 The trees and plants produce important food...
01:20:34 I came up to the Ginza in Tokyo.
01:23:18 Then yams came out. Lots and lots...
01:27:31 Kuzushiri wants you to be at the center soon.
01:32:14 How can we think of abandoning our tents?
01:35:18 Marry her.
01:43:02 What are you saying?
01:54:15 Not me. The villagers did.
01:57:21 I don't want to be like my sister.